Boynton Tackles Growth Plan Fixup

September 13, 1989|By DEBRA L. WALLACE, Staff Writer

BOYNTON BEACH -- State planners sent 64 pages of objections to the Comprehensive Plan outlining the city`s next 20 years. But city officials on Tuesday said they are not concerned about revising the plan and adopting it within 60 days.

Planning Director Carmen Annunziato said city planners and consultants have already started work on the numerous objections to the city`s growth blueprint.

He said some of the information state planners said was not included on maps, charts and reports, must have been overlooked.

``In quite a few of the comments, (the reviewers) didn`t pay attention to what they were looking at. The analysis was there,`` Annunziato said.

Planners with the state Department of Community Affairs had objections to nearly every element in the city`s Comprehensive Plan, including housing, roads, drainage, traffic, water, coastal management and conservation.

``We`ve started the work. We will do whatever it takes,`` Annunziato said.

The state criticized the city`s designated service levels during peak traffic for several main roads including Interstate 95 and Boynton Beach Boulevard, saying they are below the Department of Transportation`s standards.

The city should include the amount of land it would need to annex for the projected population and for future housing needs, the report says.

The state said the city must also determine which portion of the future housing can be provided by private builders, and how the city will provide low- and moderate-income housing.

The state took issue with aspects of the city`s plan to ban mobile homes in portions of the city. The report states that there is no explanation on the relocation that will be required of existing mobile homes.

The city has a new policy that allows group homes for the emotionally disturbed in every residential neighborhood in Boynton Beach starting in June 1990. But the state said that isn`t quick enough, and the policy should go into effect this year, when the plan is adopted.